Lynton Keith Caldwell: An Environmental Visionary and the National Environmental Policy Act

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Gallery Caldwell’s parents, Lee and Alberta, on their wedding day, March 30, 1904. All photographs are courtesy of the Caldwell Family Estate unless otherwise indicated. Caldwell with his father, Lee, ca. 1916. Caldwell, ca. 1929: “I played the French horn for three years in the school band.” Caldwell, 1938 (photo used in newspaper articles at the time of his appointment to Indiana University’s Calumet Extension Center, August 1939). Caldwell, Ph.D. in political science, University of Chicago, March 26, 1943. Caldwell, birdwatching trip, Camp-i-Skogen, Wisconsin, April 14, 1946 (note the ever-present binoculars). Caldwell and Helen at Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin, April 1946. Setting up the program for training civil servants with Syracuse and New York Universities, 1947. Caldwell is at the far left; Governor Thomas Dewey is in a dark suit. Caldwell with Elaine and Ned, 1952. The Caldwell family at Highland Park, Chicago, August 1953. Institute of Public Administration Mission to the Philippines, 1954. Caldwell is in the front row, third from left. Caldwell and Helen arriving at an Afghan Embassy dinner in Ankara, Turkey, May 27, 1955. Caldwell (center), director, Indiana University Institute of Training for Public Service, and coordinator, Indonesia and Thailand Public Administration Programs, April 30, 1958. Courtesy of Indiana University Archives. Caldwell with Thai graduates, June 8, 1959. President Herman B Wells is third from the right. Courtesy of Indiana University Archives. Caldwell with Al Rosenthal, University of New Mexico, on publication of the first volume of a two-volume bibliography, Science, Technology and Public Policy, March 1968. Courtesy of Dick Melenski, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Caldwell with Helen at his right during a visit to India, where they attended the IUCN Congress in 1969. Caldwell arriving to plan environmental education courses at Mass Audubon, May 9, 1969. Photo taken at the Hatheway School of Conservation Education on the grounds of what is now Mass Audubon. Courtesy of Mass Audubon, Lincoln, MA. Planning environmental education courses. Caldwell (on left) at Hatheway School of Conservation Education, May 9, 1969, on the grounds of what is now Mass Audubon. Courtesy of Mass Audubon, Lincoln, MA. Caldwell at his home, Cedar Crest, in April 1972. Courtesy of Indiana University Archives. Caldwell in his study at Cedar Crest, April 1972, holding his book In Defense of Earth. Courtesy of Indiana University Archives. Caldwell receiving an honorary law degree, May 1977. Courtesy of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Caldwell talking to trees outside his offices at 1800 North Fee Lane, September 1983. Courtesy of Indiana University Archives. Caldwell at SPEA, Indiana University reception to honor him for the John Gaus Award, August 31, 1996. Caldwell at Cedar Crest, December 1972. Courtesy of the Indianapolis Star. Caldwell on the back deck of his home, Cedar Crest, April 21, 2002. Photo by Wendy Read Wertz. Caldwell holding the Lifetime Achievement Award for Conservation, the Nature Conservancy of Indiana, forty-fifth anniversary, September 2003. Photo by Wendy Read Wertz. Caldwell with Lynton Hayes, ninetieth birthday party at Cedar Crest, November 21, 2003. Photo by Wendy Read Wertz. Caldwell and Helen on a day out in Nashville, Indiana, July 2005. Back row from left: Don Wertz with Baby the Rottweiler, the author, Elaine Caldwell Emmi, Dinah Bear (ex-CEQ), Ray Clark (ex-CEQ), Ruth Chumbley, caretaker (d. 2010), and Phil Emmi. Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Caldwell’s father, May 3, 1926. William E. Mosher Award, 1963, for Caldwell’s groundbreaking article “Environment: A New Focus for Public Policy?” Personal letter from President Jimmy Carter to Caldwell on the tenth anniversary of Earth Day and signing of the National Environmental Policy Act. Letter of thanks and commendation from Kathleen “Katie” McGinty, chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, June 19, 1997. ...